"Meet Roy. Roy got in touch with us complaining of feeling perplexed. He was diagnosed with asthma as a child and has carried the condition throughout his life...although latterly he was diagnosed alternatively in recent years with having COPD. Roy is 73. When i met Roy, i could see that he chest breathes and his breathing was audible...he more than likely became a habitually poor breather through his early asthma affliction. He was really struggling after climbing a flight of stairs when we met. Roy was also a mouth breather, both day and night and mouth breathers tend to use their upper chest muscles. Nobody ever told Roy any of this and as a layperson, nobody could expect him to know. After a period of approximtely 8 weeks breathing re-training, Roy wrote to me explaining how he no longer needed an NHS-prescribed steriod inhaler - the one course of ongoing treatment he was desperate to avoid. Attached is a picture of Roy, cycling up and down hills in Portugal, breathing obviously much improved."